Midweek already! goodness me!

Well its been a couple of days I can tell you, firstly I heard of the passing of one of my Dads fire brigade colleagues, Bob .‘Pop’ as he was fondly known, he  was a larger than life character and also a great painter and decorator! ( our staircase and landing were testament to that)

Sadly there are not too many of the original  watch still around.

Such very sad news.

I then heard that one of my former colleagues at Merchant Taylors had passed away too. Very hard to believe. Geoffrey was a lovely man who I had a lot of time for.

Loss is also on the cards in cricket but only in the form of ‘retirement’ as Geoff Cook steps away from Durham CCC where he had been for 27 years, will there be more to follow?

There are some who have been there nearly as long as Geoff, in both a playing and coaching role, maybe change is the key.

I am still waiting to see if the rumoured choice of batting coach will be coming to Yorkshire, I am actually really excited at the thought of this man taking on the role ( if he does). Top bloke, someone that I have known for many years. Come on Yorkshire give him the job!

And talking Yorkshire lets have a look at yesterdays play.

Weather caused delays to the start and Hampshire were bowling...................and they were bowling, when we were 72-5 I decided to go into the meeting room and get on with some spreadsheets. Only way to try to distract me.
They ended their first innings  184 all out but our bowling attack went into action and had Hampshire 79-5 at stumps.



If I thought we were batting poorly though, Worcestershire, who started on time were 94 all out before the lunch potatoes were cooked!


Stokes and Hales are off to a disciplinary hearing in December. Yawn yawn yawn, like the ECB will do anything with the monster they created!


Before I forget HUGE shout out to TLJL who was in the runs again yesterday for Yorkshire 2nds!!!!!

And that's it, I'm meeting up with my old friend Craig  for a day out today, We need to have a  catch up we haven;t seen each other for about a year. Lots to chat about, most especially his new career post Fire Service.


Have a super dooper day.